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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor Aad Publisher
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
Treaty-Law at Work
Shows Nsed of Revising
Within a week of what sounded like a
promise of President Eisenhower that he
would not involve this country in war
without action by Congress, Secretary of
State John Foster DuHes declared that
the President has the a«thori4y to order
instant retaliation against attackers of the
United States or its aWiee. Thia authority,
said Mr. Dulles, stems from the North
Atlantic Treaty and the Rio de Janerm
Treaty.
President Eisenhower had se*d. "There
is going to be no involvement of America
in war unless it is a result of the constitu
tional process that is placed upon Congress
to declare it. Now, let us have that clear.
And that is the answer."
In his press conference the day follow
ing Mr. Dulles’ statement, the President
told his questioners that in the extreme
case of impending attack on the United
States, he felt no one would hold him guilt
less if he sat and tried to get in touch with
Congress. In the matter of self-preserva
tion, he felt that the same rule applied
to nations as to individuals.
In reply to a later question on the
Dulles’ interpretation of the North Atlan
tic Treaty, the President said he didn't
think that Mr. Dulles meant to say that
the President would have this authority to
declare war.
Mr. Dulles had assured the reporters,
however, that on ratification by the Sen
ate, the North Atlantic and Rio treaties
gave the President full authority to order
retaliation without consulting Congress.
“An attack upon one (of the signers) is
the same as an attack upon the United
States," said. Mr. Dulles, “and an attack
upon one is an attack upon all.”
Asked if this meant that the President
of the United States had the same power
of retaliation against an attack on London
or Paris as he would if the target were
New York or Chicago or Detroit, the
Secretary of State answered, “Yes, sir”.
The foregoing should begin to make
clear how treaty-law operates. And it may
suggest why a Constitutional Amendment,
such as that originally proposed by Sena
tor Bricker and amended by Senator
George, is needed.
But it still does not explain why Law
yer Dulles favored such an amendment be
fore Election Day of 1952, and Secretary
of State Dulles opposes it.
Who's Old at 65?
Our attention is called today to a wire
service story concerning a social event of
great rarity and unusual sugnificance which
occurred in Wheeling, West Virginia,
March 18th.
A dinner was given by a 75-year-old to
bacco firm for employes who have worked
for the company 25 years or more.
Eleven employes who attended the din
ner had worked 50 years or more continu
ously for this firm, and on® woman had
worked 62 years for Bloch Brothers Tobac
co Company, having started to work in
1890. The firm was founded in 1879.
Actually, several of the elderly ladies
originally cam® to Wheeling as girls be
cause their homes were destroyed in the
Johnstown flood. They went to work for
Bloch Brothers several years later (one
in 1890) and only retired from active work
with the firm January Ist of this year.
There is so much irresponsible talk
these days of people retiring at early ages,
and so much dangerous thinking in con
nection with the whole age subject.
Many men and women find it difficult
to find work after forty, and who would
want to be job-hunting after fifty?
Yet, here is concrete evidence that this
firm not only found it desirable to con
tinue these employes way beyond the age
of 65. but also testified by so doing to
their usefulness.
We wish to congratulate the elderly
ladies and gentlemen of the Bloch Brothers
Tobacco Company of Wheeling, West Vir
ginia. for having reminded the nation that
there is a solid place for people of late
years, and that the reward to management
for keeping such people active is continu
ous and faithful service.
This whole pleasant episode sort of
takes one back to the last century, and
makes one appreciate some of the virtues
of the old-fashioned ways. There's too
much change and movement today. The
rich values of life are constantly lost.
One such value is continuity.
What Commies? $
President Eisenhower, in answer to a
question at his press conference, almost
agreed with Vermont's Republican Sena-
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
Th® President, who authorized direct
quotation of his answer, said he had ex
pected the question and “thought about it
on the way over”. He said that he agreed
that “when Senator Flanders points up
the danger of us engaging in internecine
warfare—then he is doing a service when
that kind of th mg m happening”.
Bm Mr. Eisenhower hastened to add,
“Mow I am not going to be hi a position
of endorsing every word he said or how
he said it. I don’t know—All I saw of it
was a little bit of the thing on television
last night—"
So we wonder if the President we® lis
tening when Senator Flanders declared
that international Communism rather than
domestic, had placed the free world in
mortal peril—that the danger “is from
without, not from within”.
Thus the Vermont Senator appears to
be in agreement with Harry (Red Herring)
Truman, who told reporters ia New York
only a few days ago “There aren’t an eye
ful of Communists in the whole country—”
Senator McCarthy, however, in devot
ing a moment to Mr. Flanders during his
radio appearance on the Fulton Lewis, Jr.
program, quoted Abraham Lincoln in re
ply. He recalled that Lincoln had said
that not all the armies of Europe could
“gain the Blue Ridge or drink of the Ohio
River”—and that if America was ever to
by destroyed, it would be from within.
In view of the record of the past twenty
years—the planned, deliberate and steady
infiltration of Reds and their pink follow
ers into every phase of American life,
government, schools and colleges, the press,
labor unions, even religious groups—which
should be as familiar to Senator Flanders
as to the rest of us; we are inclined to
agree with President Lincoln—and Sena
tor McCarthy.
Hell-Bomb More Appropriate
Name for Hydrogen Bomb
The return® are still coming in. At
latest report, a vessel 800 miles away from
the March first detonation of a “thermo
neuclear device” in the Bikini proving
ground was found to be radio-active.
American and Japanese radiation special
ists were treating the 23 crewmen of a
vessel showered with pulverized radio
active coral 80 miles from the blast, and
presumably outside of the danger area.
Half a dozen doctors from the Atom Bomb
Casualty Commission at Hiroshima (the
world’s first atom target) were working
on four atom-burned fishermen, still re
ported in a dangerous condition. In the
face of continued public excitement and
Remands for action, the Japanese Govern
ment decided to await the outcome of a
joint investigation before Ynaking formal
protest or compensation demands.
In Washington, Congressman James E
Van Zandt (Rep.) of Pennsylvania, told
newsmen that such a “device” dropped
on the Capitol dome would obliterate the
nation’s seat of Government, with an area
of total destruction twelve miles wide. The
force of this mightiest explosion yet, he
s®id. is estimated as the equivalent of
touching off 12 to 14 million tons of TNT.
And there are larger ones in prospect for
the present test series.
Further word that the neuclear scien
tists themselves were “surprised”, makes
us wonder just how much farther it is
necessary to go in order to impress the
world that we possess the horror to end all
horrors.
Belt and Suspenders Too?
Most Americans, we think, will applaud
th® District of Columbia Department of
The American Legion for suggesting to
Congress that it put off voting pay raises
for Federal workers until after the law
makers have appropriated the money ne
cessary to meet the higher payroll.
You would have thought this idea might
have occurred to one of our Congressmen,
especially since they forgot about the
money last time they voted a raise, and
some workers have had to be fired to give
more pay to the lucky remainder.
We would further suggest that before
discussing either the raise or the where
withal to meet it, the Congress take a look
at the snarl known as the civil service
system—plus the newer complication of
Federal employe unions. This combination
has made it pretty clear that the machin
ery of Government exists for the benefit of
the workers first, and those who get up
that payroll afterward.
Certainly Federal employes should have
the protec'ion of a comprehensible civil
service sys om. or they should have unions.
There should be no need for both.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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Jmui Strengthens Hie Disciples
Background Scripture John 15-16.
Memory Selection: When the
spirit of truth comes, he will
guide you into all the truth.
John 16:13.
The fourteenth, fifteenth and
sixteenth chapters of John' con
tain precious words of comfort
and divine truth. The assurance
that Jesus gave was that he would
sustain his disciples through the;
ages.
He promised that, through the
ministry of the Comforter, his
presence and power would con
tinually be made available to all
believers.
The glorious words of Jesus re
corded in these chapters were his
farwell addresss. He bade his fol
lowers expect much help from him
including the complete sus- )
taining of their lives of crisis. In,
the figure of the vine and the
branches he showed them how to
remain in close touch with him I
always and so have spiritual pow-'
er flowing into their lives at all
) times.
The fourteenth and fifteenth
chapters of John should be read
as preliminary to today’s lesson
They are the background upon
which are projected the teachings
we are now about to examine.
"The®® Things’*
“These things have I spoken
unto you, that ye should not be
caused to stumble.’’
The expression ‘to stumble” is
frequently used in the New Testa
ment. Today we often speak of
i a man’s descent into sin as “fall
-1 ing.’’ Both Jesus and later those
disciples of his who wrote the
New Testament taught rather of
a man’s stumbling. They knew
that people stumble before they
fall.
Their emphasi^ was upon the
। little beginning which leads to
sin: stop that, and the fall will
be prevented.
All though our lives we arc
■ constantly stumbling morally, and
frequently this stumbling causes
us to plunge headlong into some
evil. The little moral compromises
to which we have accomodated
ourselves so comfortably are ex
amples of such stumbling.
We do hundreds of things and
entertain thousands of thoughts
and allow ourselves to be over
com® by a whole multitude of
implu«es, none of which immedi
ately precipitanst us into trouble
or moral disaster. But each of
these things is a stumbling, which
can lead to a fall.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth
chapter®, Jesus had presented to
his disciples a life lived so close
to God that men who followed it
could walk unafraid and without
stumbling along life’s pathway.
His object was to keep men
pritually healthy, to keep a light
■onstantly before their feet, to re
nove any stumbling block, which
in the Greek is designated by the
word skandalon, from which w®
get the English word “scandal.”
Here is a great spiritual con
cept and a source of mighty com
fort if we will make it so—Christ
can keep us from stumbling and
if we do not tumble, w® will not
fall.
Dark Day Ahead
If the friend of Jesus could have
foreseen the suffering in which
loyalty to Christ would involve
them and their descendants, they
might indeed have drawn back
from the whole Christian enter
prise. The persecutions recorded
in the New Testament are mild
compared with the dreadful per
secutions which the Romans
carried on for 250 years, until
Christianity became established
। among the Romans as the state
religion. Brave missionaries were
, later to suffei maryrdom. In the
— ’ i
sixteenth and seventeenth cen-11
turies mare divilish contrivances;;
for torturing men and <wo-;;
men were developed than human- ;
ity had ever dreamed of before | <
or has ever used since.
The sufferings of Christ were
to be re-enacted times without ;
maintenance of the true faith.
The strange thing about relig
number in the establishment and
ious persecution has been that ‘
persuctors have always believed
that .they were serving God with
their ungodly cruelty. Jesus put
his finger on the cause of this in-1
tellectual and spiritual perversion
by declaring that men behave this '
way “because they have not I
known the Father, nor me.”
If at any time you harbor the
desire to advance the cause of i
Christ’s kingdom by punishing
Christ’s enemies, just remember
that according to Christ’s own
spiritual ignorance.
Courage will always be de
manded of the Christian. Be
hind the Iron Curtain today the!
atheistic materialism of the
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and purges. In our own land the
attempt of men and women, boys
and girls to live lives of whole
someness, love, self-control, re
finement, and honesty is often
) jerred at and called prudery.
Religionists who have soiled
history’s pages with their persecu
'tions have usually been mistaken
persons whose religion consisted
of man-made rules and not of a
living relationship with God
through Christ.
Jesus reminded the disqiples,
that he was soon to leave them.
He had not frightened them in|
the beginning with warnings of
suffering and persecution. White
he was with them in body, he'
could support and encourage them 1
But his physical presence was
soon to be removed from them I
After this, his support of them I
) would be spiritual, and if they did
< not team how to receive this
' spiritual support, they would be
lost.
[ The heart of Jesus yearned on
[this occasion for some question)
j from these friends which would i
i enable him to tell them about the I
; glory of the realm to which he 1
was going. He had only said to
them. “I go to prepare a place j
ifor you.” He longed to tell them j
more of this place. But their (
: hearts were so filled with corrow
; that they were in no mood to list-;
en. Tn a tone of genuine sorrow,)
Jesus said to them “None of you
asketh me. Whither goest thou?”|
The hope of the disciples was
now to be transferred from earth
to heaven, and to this day it re-)
mains that for all of us earth is
but a temporary dwelling place
and heaven is our true home. We)
are here but for a little while,)
and usually our sojourn is a time)
of sorrow and trial, preparatory)
to the greater life beyond.
Most impotant of all, we must,
as we live our daily lives, re
solutely project our thoughts and
hopes to the unseen heavenly,
realm where Christ now dwells in
glory.
In the midst of these days of
frustration, pain and tribulation,
we must remember the eternal
life which is laid up for us
through faith in Christ. As we
struggle to be adequate in a world
which threatens us with over
whelming ruin, we must keep our
minds fixed on Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith.
Th® Coming of the Comforter
Th® Master declared to his dis
ciples that it was expedient for
him to go away.
Why? Might he not have con
tinued hi® marvelous ministry for
a generation more, to raise allj
1 human life to higher levels? No, ।
the full purpose of God had been)
accomplished in the three years)
of his Servant s ministry. On the
cross, Jesus u‘as to utter the
words of confidence and triumph,
“It is finished.” All that could be
done for the souls of men, Jesus
had already done.
He was now about to make that
eternal sacrifice by which for
giveness is offered to every hu
man heart. He was to demonstrate
his power and his victor in the
resurrection.
Greatest of all, he was to take
up again that spiritual career
which he had voluntarily allowed
to be interrupted during the per
iod of his sojourn in the flesh.
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